Nato Rounds Up Weapons

World News to Note

August 31, 2001

SKOPJE, Macedonia -- NATO said Thursday that it had collected a third of the ethnic Albanian rebels' weapons and is ahead of schedule, opening the way for debate on constitutional reforms to give ethnic Albanians greater rights. U.S. Maj. Barry Johnson, the NATO spokesman in Skopje, told The Associated Press that 1,400 weapons have been collected -- more than a third of the 3,300 weapons that NATO must gather.